But Yellowknife seems to be the next best thing: the first truly habitable site outside of our planet.
At that time birth records for chimpanzees were not kept so Wolf did the next best thing: He asked the expert to estimate Little Mama's age.
If families aren't willing to remove a pet, the next best thing is to isolate the pet from allergic family members as much as possible, by keeping it outdoors, or at least out of bedrooms.
So I went with the next best thing: a kid I met in the parking lot of Yosemite's Camp 4.
Apart from a stated preference and dedication to Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, savvy geeks on the cusp of the next best thing won't necessarily want what the 900 has to offer, especially in light of that other spotlight-stealing flagship, the One X.
So investor Peter Thiel is contemplating the next best thing: Helping to actually build one in the real world.
The International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations said the accident shows the need for the next best thing - braking systems of soft cement beyond the runway, where wheels can sink in and slow the jets to a safe stop.
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But a small Chicago firm, Lanworth, is doing the next best thing, which is to re-create it from the outside.
"It doesn't quite feel like being at the concert but it does feel like the next best thing, " said Screen Daily editor Wendy Mitchell of the 3D format.
Eager to make money and produce the next best thing, we're no doubt aware that knowing the Supreme Court justices and obscure Thoreau quotes might make us seem intelligent, but this knowledge won't help us make payroll or write the next innovative software application.
The U.S. women didn't win any medals, but they got the next-best thing, reclaiming a third spot for the Sochi Olympics.
But you can do the next best thing and invest in Sina, a Chinese Internet company which is the parent of Weibo, a Twiter-like microblogging service.
The installation is no longer physically at San Francisco, but the Imaginary Foundation has created the next best thing: a virtual art exhibit, which enables you to explore the installation and the art therein.
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Short of a merger, this may be the next best thing, but it falls short of a true global singular entity of the kind that WorldCom is forging through acquisitions.
He has long argued for a return to the gold standard, as the next best thing to (and presumably a stepping-stone towards) a single currency for the world.
So I went to the next best thing -- two women who attended a HighScope preschool in Michigan but weren't part of the studies the group ran.
Except that they won't ship outside the U.S. The same thing happens with the next-best deal.
The American version makes business success the next best thing to fraternalism and solidarity.
They can't pay players, so they choose the next best thing: shiny facilities to lure them.
If you are unable to get any tenerals, then mature females are the next best thing.
We'd love to be winning the Heineken Cup, but this certainly is the next best thing.
The next best thing, we guess, is hoping for another Giants-Pats thriller in Indy.
So some pill-pushers are settling for the next best thing: putting him in their ads anyway.
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It is their job to do so, and possibly the next best thing to psychological safety.
For those who cannot get such regular jobs, a petty business is the next best thing.
While that has yet to happen, Malaysia Airlines might have come up with the next best thing.
When the banks no longer pay, some investors are finding the local electric company the next best thing.
Mr Yilmaz, then still caretaker prime minister, said this might be the next best thing to sending him to Turkey.
The next best thing might be binding rules that force southern governments to take seriously those things dear to German voters.
For those not fortunate enough to have Hollywood running through your family tree, this book may be the next best thing.
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